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AI for Automotive Systems Engineering

Supercharge your automotive engineering practice with AI. Master high-speed R&D, automated manufacturing analysis, and AI-driven industrial modeling to deliver elite insights at 10x speed.

Note: Modules are fully customizable depending on specific customer needs and industry focus.

Duration: 3 to 5 days depending on the tailoring.
Certificate of Completion

What You'll Learn

  • Understand the fundamentals of AI in the automotive industry
  • Apply AI effectively across the automotive V-Model development process
  • Automate requirements engineering and management using AI
  • Accelerate ASPICE compliance implementations with intelligent tools
  • Enhance Functional Safety (ISO 26262) analysis through AI assistance
  • Rapidly prepare and valid prototypes with AI-driven engineering
  • Optimize testing, validation, and issue management workflows

Detailed Curriculum

Module 1
Introduction

Objective: Introduce the role of AI in modern automotive engineering workflows.
Topics:
▪AI vs Machine Learning vs Generative AI
▪Why AI is becoming critical in engineering
▪Challenges in automotive development
▪Overview of engineering lifecycle
▪Opportunities for AI automation
Practical Example: Using a large language model to analyse an engineering document.
Exercise: Generate structured summaries from technical specifications.

Module 2
Overview: Applying AI to the V-Model

Objective: Understand where AI can assist across the automotive development lifecycle.
Topics:
▪Automotive V-Model overview
▪Engineering phases in automotive development
▪Mapping AI capabilities to lifecycle phases
▪AI opportunities in system design, implementation, testing, and maintenance
Practical Exercise: Participants map AI opportunities across the V-Model.
Example outputs: requirement analysis, architecture support, test generation, issue triage

Module 3
AI for Requirements Management

Objective: Improve requirement quality and efficiency using AI.
Topics:
▪Requirement extraction from documents
▪Automatic requirement classification
▪Detecting ambiguity and inconsistencies
▪Traceability generation
▪AI-assisted requirement reviews
Practical Exercise: Use AI to detect ambiguous requirements, generate acceptance criteria, create traceability links.
Tools: LLM based tools or simple Python scripts.

Module 4
AI for Implementing ASPICE

Objective: Use AI to support Automotive SPICE compliant development processes.
Topics:
▪Overview of ASPICE process areas
▪Documentation burden in ASPICE projects
▪AI support for work products
▪AI support for process monitoring
Practical Exercise: Generate ASPICE work product templates using AI.
Example: AI assistance for SYS.2 System Requirements, SWE.3 Software Detailed Design, MAN.3 Project Management

Module 5
AI for Functional Safety

Objective: Support ISO 26262 activities using AI.
Topics:
▪Overview of functional safety lifecycle
▪Hazard identification support
▪AI-assisted HARA preparation
▪AI support for safety documentation
▪Safety case preparation
Practical Exercise: Use AI to generate hazard lists, safety goals, safety requirements.

Module 6
AI for Fast Prototyping

Objective: Accelerate early engineering experimentation.
Topics:
▪Rapid proof-of-concept development
▪AI-assisted coding
▪Code generation tools
▪Simulation support
Practical Exercise: Create a simple prototype using AI generated code.
Examples: signal processing algorithm, basic predictive model

Module 7
AI for Tests & Validation

Objective: Improve efficiency in test design and execution.
Topics:
▪Automatic test case generation
▪AI support for test coverage analysis
▪Test result analysis
▪Failure pattern detection
Practical Exercise: Use AI to generate test cases from requirements.
Example: Generate test cases for a safety feature.

Module 8
AI for Issue Management

Objective: Use AI to manage engineering issues effectively.
Topics:
▪Issue classification
▪Root cause identification
▪AI support for bug triage
▪Engineering knowledge extraction
Practical Exercise: Analyse issue tickets and cluster them automatically.
Examples: AI classification of defect type, subsystem impact, severity level

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Course Instructors

Learn directly from industry veterans with years of hands-on experience in automotive systems engineering and functional safety.

Dr. Sunish George Alumkal

Dr. Sunish George Alumkal

Principal Consultant | Systems Engineering

Industrial PhD in AI/ML with 20+ years in automotive & consumer electronics. He has built complex agentic systems for global brands, focusing on engineering precision and rapid industrial validation.

Saj Sadanand

Saj Sadanand

Industry Expert | Functional Safety

Brings 20+ years of experience in Functional Safety across both the automotive and aviation industries, providing extensive expertise to high-stakes engineering projects. Today he and his team apply AI in their work to reduce a lot of manual work which otherwise would be boring and prone to errors.